Echolocation is a natural phenomenon observed in bats that allows them to navigate complex, dim environments with enough precision to capture insects in midair. Echolocation is driven by the underlying process of echoic ...

The discovery and exploration of shale gas has provided the U.S. with abundant energy resources. Methane from shale gas has been widely considered a game-changing energy resource. However, the large quantity of CO2 emissions ...

Due to a greater variety of applications required for robotics, soft robotics has been studied because of its untethered control, fast transformation, and biocompatibility. Soft magnetic material was developed by embedding ...

Learning to stand and balance is one of the most important processes that human children go through as they become independent competent movers. However, the process that humans use to learn to stand stably has not been ...

Lithium Ion Battery research is growing due to the need for renewable resources. Since the amount of research is growing so is the amount of data collected. With all this data it is taking more and more of researcher's ...

Low-cost and environmentally friendly district heating has become a popular trend in northern Europe. These systems use excess heat from plants or factories to heat water, which is then used to supply heat to homes and ...

As energy prices increase and there is a push for a smarter energy grid, people are continually looking for ways to make the energy grid more reliable and efficient. Specifically, power outages can cause huge problems to ...

Today, manufacturers require specialized machinery to produce various metal tubular designs for aeronautical and automotive applications. In an effort to reduce machine and tooling redesign with every unique tubular ...

Jet noise has been an active area of research since the inception of jets and although understanding of the mechanisms behind jet noise are more understood, there is still a lack of knowledge to predict jet noise from ...

Presented here are three designs and early prototypes for a mechanical micropump which is actuated by colloidal magnetic micro-spheres controlled by stray fields of magnetic micro-disks. Advantages of this actuation technique ...